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INTRODUCING

Rici Brockinson

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153). It doesn’t have to be that extreme but don’t let that favorite piece of cloth-ing get ruined. Whether it be a lucky pair of socks unwearable, power suit ruined by the cleaners, a favorite ‘lucky’ shirt with an unrelenting stain. That can be a crinkle in the armor made and that can not happen; needed is that confidence to help us through with our little, big, or out of this world struggles.

So, again we go back to the magazines, blogs, on-line search; looking at design-ers and in shops to !nd out what’s in, what’s out, what’s new and in season to replace pieces of armor… add that ink back over the layout, correct that paint splotch to match the painting or start re-new on new canvas… to build back that con!dence, independence and freedom that can be found in colors, patterns and fabric.

Clothing is our aura that can not be seen by the naked eye. An aura is like a

“In clothing we give the same expressions of art every day in the choices that we make.”

INTRODUCTIONFashion Fusion Art is a magazine about clothing fused with personality to create

everyday art. "is art represents our own individual character; sometimes reveal-ing who we are, who we want to be and even shield us as armor for protection. Art

is a form of expression to express feeling, emit emotion, an idea or even a revelation. In clothing we give the same expressions of art every day in the choices that we make, “…fashion and some of it’s many facets: it’s sources in culture and in social structure, the processes by which it di#uses within and among societies, the purposes it serves in social di#erentiation and social integration, the psychological needs it is said to satisfy, and not least of all, it’s implications for modern…life” (Davis, 4). A fashionable, expres-sive life.

"ere are so many choices in colors, patterns and fabric, when put all together we make a design of ourselves. "at can be hard or easily read, “"e chief di$culty of under-standing fashion in its apparent vagaries is the lack of exact knowledge of the uncon-scious symbolism attaching to forms, colors, textures, postures and other expressive elements of a given culture…” (Davis, 5). "e designs represent us to the world. With the help of magazines, blogs, designers, shops, on-line searches and talks with one another about our choices with fabrics, brands, the season trends; fashion brings us together. And, in coming together about what, how and why-we wear what we have chosen to wear, we are designing everyday art.

"ough this kind of art is not located in galleries, museums or on exhibition, it is located on the streets, in neighborhoods, downtowns and cities… all over. "is is a collection of human choice… “It can be said that in very large part our identities-our sense of who and what we are-take shape in terms of how we balance and attempt to resolve the ambivalences to which our natures, our times and our culture make us heir (Strauss 1959)” (Davis, 5). We all participate to share a piece each and every day… even on days we think we look our worst. Each art piece having its own ideas that the wearer wants the viewer to see, know and have. At times we are super conscious of our artful expres-sion… other times we are not; just wanting to be comfortable, we sometimes let our guard down.

In interacting with one another we give and receive feelings and emotions just by what we wear. "is is what art does for our minds, hearts and souls-and over the centuries the wearing of clothing has become more than covering, for warmth, explaining rank and poverty to turning into self expression, revealing skin, playing with color and pattern to futuristic cut and layers. "ese little revelations give form to a power with each piece of jewelry, patterned dress, colored slacks added with the previous thoughts; we gain con!dence-give con!dence.

Even those famous !nd security in clothing: “[Cindy] Sherman, when she moved to New York a%er graduating from art school…was scared by the city. Dressing up was the way to overcome her shyness. Working as a receptionist… she would come to work in a nurse uniform or dressed as a secretary from the 1950’s” (Bukema-Van Der Tuin,


&ashlight of a variety colors that surrounds our heads like a halo that shows di#erent colors depending on the mood we’re in. Unfortunately, we can not see these colors but we feel them and display them by those choices in clothing.

Dr. Audrey Kargere, author of Color and Personality, writes about the correlation of color and human personality by saying, “If we could… we would see each human aura, aglow with !ne ethereal emanations. In fact… realize that everything that lives and vibrates, shines forth into the uni-verse” (Dr. Kargere, 1).

With this in mind, though an aura can not be seen by eyes, our choices in what we wear is a kind of aura. We gaze intently into past auras to !nd ourselves, though we fear the constraints of the past… “experience a sense of the uncanny when we gaze at garments that had an intimate relationship with human beings long since gone to their grave. For clothes are so much part of our living, moving selves that, frozen on display into the mauso-leums of culture, they hint at something only half understood…” (Wilson, 1).

Fashion and clothing is still only half understood, more so now because we have access to so many variety. We shine into the universe like an aura, stamped time-less. Most of our favorite pieces of past can be viewed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art-clothing pieces by House of Lanvin, a paper "e Souper dress by Andy Warhol and Gianni Versace’s dress- to name a few, as art.

If wearing a heart can be found on a sleeve then an aura can be found in a colorful dress, an all black out!t or an all white

out!t…we don’t realize we are choos-ing to be seen, heard and radiant. Even with clothing that may give way to being invisible; boring or bland, we still choose to be. Actress, Tilda Swinton has been quoted to say “Clothing tells us so much than we give it credit: for every choice, every decision-even the deci-sion not to choose.” If only Kargere could know the variety of clothing we have now from when he wrote the book in 1949. He would know when he said, “"e &uctuation and change of the emanations (aura) would charm and interest us beyond all human conception.” …it has indeed, in fashion.

With all the colors that he explain give to our mood and character: Red means the physical plane of being; friendship, love, health and vigor. Yellow represents intellect; golden yellow the highest form of intellect. Blue; spiritual and religious being. Dark blue great depth in religion, whereas light blue is a mere devotion to the ideals. Orange, a mix of red and yel-low; uni!es body and mind, represent-ing wisdom and justice. Green a combo of mind and spirit, is a lover of nature. Grayish green is a symbol of jealousy and deceit…emerald green is versatility and ingenuity, while pale green means sympathy and compassion. Purple, (red/blue) is another connection of body and spirit; symbolizing the ideal and sublime, also love for cer-emony. White, is pure spirit, black is the negation of all and grey means fear and depression (Dr. Kargere, 2) this is all a guideline match of color

and personality but it is erie how our clothes can be a canvas of subcon-scious personality.

Fashion fused into art, this ev-eryday art, has consumed our conception of beauty, culture and identity. Clothing has fascinated us, throughout the years the change in length, what can’t and can be shown, color and fabrics-have changed so drastically from before Kargere’s time to our present time. And, in all this time clothing is still and will continue to be Fash-ion Fused into Art. Enjoy!

Founder-Photographer, Richena Brockinson


Inspirational images:Essence

Inspirational photographer: Annie Leibovitz

Australia

Annie LeibovitzVogue

Essence

INSPIRATION


Metropolitan Museum:Cyclone- House of Lanvin

French 1889

Own work:Richena Brockinson

Dress- Yves St. LaurentParis 1962

Richena Brockinson


“Clothing is our aura that can not be seen by the naked eye.”


“Art is a form of expression to express feeling, emit emotion, an idea or even

a revelation.

In clothing, we give the same expressions of art every day in the choices

that we make.


“The chief�]b_Û\nemr�h_�ng]^klmZg]bg`�fashion in its apparent vagaries is the lack of exact knowledge of the uncon-scious symbolism attaching to forms, colors, textures, postures and other ex-pressive elements of a given culture…” -Davis


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MISSION of Magazine:


Color Blocking

Coming this summer

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Skin

coming this fall...

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CONTRIBUTORS


I want to send out a HUGE THANK YOU to all that helped make this magazine possible!

THANK YOU


ARTIST STATEMENT

II fell in love with photography. "at is why I created LIONESSPhotog-raphy to bring together design,

concept, realism and emotion with fashion and lifestyle to make images works of art. I do this by giving profes-sional, personal detail to every image and every client from the conception, to the process, to the layout and design. My focus is on the body movement of the model, the design of the set and the lighting of the mood to complete the image, collaborating with all in involved to produce outstanding imagery.

My start was at the Manchester Cra%s-man Guild, learning to develop and produce high quality black and white images. "is experience landed me at the Pittsburgh Black Media Federa-tion’s Frank Bolden Urban Journalism Workshop for a summer. I became interested in news photography, color !lm and digital images. I wanted to capture the story in one shot, similar to Teenie ‘One Shot’ Harris. I ventured in his steps, taking a freelance photo-journalist job with the New Pittsburgh Courier. "ere I learned how to truly be ‘one shot’; surveying the events I was tasked to photograph and capturing the emotion, color and story of the event in as minimal images as possible and still give the reader whole the story. In photographing a fashion show, I had an

“I created LIONESPhotography to bring together design and concept, realism and emotion with fashion and lifestyle, to make images works of art”

‘aha’ moment; this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I wanted to capture fashion as art.

I continued my education in photogra-phy at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, developing my skills further in lighting, studio and in digital design. I found my niche in Editorial fashion and lifestyle photography, taking my experiences as a freelance journalist photographer and adding that to the way I capture my work. I focus on the reality use of the product and the emotion that can come from it and in combining these skills, my fashion photography has realism, life and emotion with artistic construction.


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